Recommend standalone installation and disable plugin completion

- Update README to recommend standalone CLI installation over helm plugin
- Add note about completion limitations for helm plugin
- Disable auto-completion options when running as helm plugin
- Standalone installation provides better shell completion support

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: ritwik-g

README.md

@@ -13,44 +13,48 @@ A Helm plugin that helps manage Helm value configurations across different deplo
 
 ## Installation
 
-### As a Helm Plugin (Recommended)
+### As a Standalone CLI Tool (Recommended)
 
-Install the plugin using the Helm plugin manager:
+Install directly with pip:
 
 ```bash
-helm plugin install https://github.com/Zipstack/helm-values-manager
+pip install helm-values-manager
 ```
 
-Or install from source:
+Or with uv:
 
 ```bash
-git clone https://github.com/Zipstack/helm-values-manager
-helm plugin install ./helm-values-manager
+uv add helm-values-manager
 ```
 
-### As a Standalone CLI Tool
-
-Install directly with pip:
+Or install from source:
 
 ```bash
-pip install helm-values-manager
+git clone https://github.com/Zipstack/helm-values-manager
+cd helm-values-manager
+uv install
+# CLI will be available as: uv run helm-values-manager
 ```
 
-Or with uv:
+The standalone installation provides better shell completion support and is easier to manage.
+
+### As a Helm Plugin
+
+Install the plugin using the Helm plugin manager:
 
 ```bash
-uv add helm-values-manager
+helm plugin install https://github.com/Zipstack/helm-values-manager
 ```
 
 Or install from source:
 
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/Zipstack/helm-values-manager
-cd helm-values-manager
-uv install
-# CLI will be available as: uv run helm-values-manager
+helm plugin install ./helm-values-manager
 ```
 
+**Note**: The helm plugin installation has limited shell completion support due to the plugin wrapper architecture.
+
 ## Quick Start
 
 ### Vendor Workflow (Chart Publisher)
@@ -92,7 +96,7 @@ uv install
 
 ## Command Reference
 
-> **Note**: Replace `helm values-manager` with `helm-values-manager` when using the standalone CLI installation.
+> **Note**: Use `helm-values-manager` for standalone installation or `helm values-manager` for helm plugin installation.
 
 | Command | Description |
 |---------|-------------|

guide/idea phase2.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 - Updating schema or schema migration. Cases like default value change / path change / deletion etc.
 - value from multiple options (eg: value should be one of [a,b,c])
 - Nice to have: completion based on resources in json files.
+- Nice to have: completion for plugin
+- Nice to have: publish as pip installable bin
 
 bugs
 - While using `helm-values-manager values init` or `helm-values-manager values set` what is the difference between n/skip both seems to do same functionality

helm_values_manager/cli.py

@@ -1,14 +1,19 @@
+import os
 import typer
 from rich.console import Console
 
 from helm_values_manager import __version__
 from helm_values_manager.commands.init import init_command
 from helm_values_manager.commands import schema, values, validate, generate
 
+# Detect if running as helm plugin
+is_helm_plugin = os.environ.get("HELM_PLUGIN_DIR") is not None
+
 app = typer.Typer(
     name="helm-values-manager",
     help="Manage Helm value configurations across multiple environments",
     no_args_is_help=True,
+    add_completion=not is_helm_plugin,  # Disable completion for helm plugin
 )
 console = Console()